The Environmental Music Videos That Time Forgot...

Rewind the clock to the late 80's. Nobody knew what climate change was. We were safe from nuclear destruction thanks to Rocky winning over the Russian crowd as he defied the odds to beat Ivan Drago, and then dressed as Rambo he single handedly wiped out entire Russian army in Afghanistan, but as the Taliban had yet to take hold and flood the world with heroin we naively thought this was good.

Nobody had heard of Saddam Hussain. The middle east crisis was limited to betting on whether Iraq or Iran would manage to destroy each other. Petrol prices were low, people could afford to buy houses without mortgaging 3 generations of their offspring, and kids could go out to play without there being a paedophile on every corner.

In short the late 80's were an innocent time when we lived for a short period without the threat of imminent destruction at our own hands. At least that's what most of us thought.

Thank God then for bands like Nuclear Assault who managed to tap into the Environmental message a good 20 years before most of the media.

It's thrash metal, and MTV Headbangers Ball host Ricky Rachmann introducing the song is more concerned with the chick in the video than the message, but hey that's OK because it was the late 80's, there was nothing to worry about in the world anymore, Nuclear Assault were probably just looking for something to be angry about to match the tone of their music.

Whatever was going on EarthDream presents the (subtitled) Environmental Music Video That Time Forgot number 1 "Critical Mass" by Nuclear Assault.

Enjoy.